I am testing as oob apart from lot sizes - one of the advantages of being the coder.
It would be really great if you could run a demo using mptm (or something) to treat the entire position as a basket and close when the profit reaches, say, 10% of account balance.
It would be useful if you could test a JS of 200 pips to see if fewer trades closing early helps the bottom line.
Cheers
- #43
- Aug 9, 2011 8:47am Aug 9, 2011 8:47am
- | Joined Nov 2009 | Status: Trader | 4,980 Posts
I have added a link to the Myfxbook page to post 1, for anybody curious.
Have a great day
whip
http://www.myfxbook.com/widget?id=14...pe=2&color=red
- #44
- Aug 9, 2011 10:28am Aug 9, 2011 10:28am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Guys, please take a look.
http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acos.../trendy/146464
My demo is sick, made 60% off a $1000 account from friday til today. Do you think this performance is given to this particular market conditions or could this bot really hold up with wildly ranging markets we get every once in a while?
It will be interesting to see how quickly it takes the bot to spot that the trends have come to an end and the markets return to ranging around for a few weeks.
Thinking ahead, I am considering introducing the 8 week MA - confirms the trend when rising/falling, otherwise showing a range.
- #45
- Aug 9, 2011 10:31am Aug 9, 2011 10:31am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Here is my manually-traded demo. Imagine the figures without the rogue NJ trade. 
My demo just hit 100% profit in 4 days trading, this is simply too good to be true, I really want shittier times to come so we can see how Trendy holds up
I'll be posting my fxbook links for 4 additional trendy demos (multiple setups) so we can track its performance for a month or so
I'll be posting my fxbook links for 4 additional trendy demos (multiple setups) so we can track its performance for a month or so
- #48
- Edited 4:54pm Aug 9, 2011 12:51pm | Edited 4:54pm
Steve,
can u add the following inputs?
- Wait for next trend (in Trendy EA, so i can already attach the EA to all pairs and be ready for the next trend change, instead of jumping in too late)
i already added it myself, i have the StopTrading variable to True as default, and added the following line in //Trading
GetSlIl();
CalculatePoints();
if ((LongPointsCount==1.5) && (ShortPointsCount==1.5)) StopTrading=false;
- show pairs with >=2 points and positive swap only (in Trendy dashboard)
Last night trendy made a nice short on usdjpy. Closed it right now manually to prevent loss in case BoJ intervenes again
Still a great +66 pips
buy on nzdusd is great now with trendy order already at BE+3 (100 pips reached)
can u add the following inputs?
- Wait for next trend (in Trendy EA, so i can already attach the EA to all pairs and be ready for the next trend change, instead of jumping in too late)
i already added it myself, i have the StopTrading variable to True as default, and added the following line in //Trading
GetSlIl();
CalculatePoints();
if ((LongPointsCount==1.5) && (ShortPointsCount==1.5)) StopTrading=false;
- show pairs with >=2 points and positive swap only (in Trendy dashboard)
Last night trendy made a nice short on usdjpy. Closed it right now manually to prevent loss in case BoJ intervenes again
Still a great +66 pips
buy on nzdusd is great now with trendy
order already at BE+3 (100 pips reached)
- #50
- Aug 9, 2011 4:27pm Aug 9, 2011 4:27pm
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Steve,
can u add the following inputs?
- Wait for next trend (in Trendy EA, so i can already attach the EA to all pairs and be ready for the next trend change, instead of jumping in too late)
- show pairs with >=2 points and positive swap only (in Trendy dashboard)
- #51
- Aug 9, 2011 4:31pm Aug 9, 2011 4:31pm
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
My demo is getting scary,
Here are my observations:
- The EA follows wonderfully its core rules regarding score for trade opening and closure. The only thing I've noticed (and Steve, maybe you know what the problem is) is that sometimes I notice the EA's dialog showing a score of "3" either positive or negative but no respective trade opened. After verifying that the SWAP nor margin filters are the cause, I just re-load the template holding the EA and the trade inmediately opens as it should (Scrolled trhough each of my 24 open charts and got...
- #53
- Aug 9, 2011 4:32pm Aug 9, 2011 4:32pm
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Just to let everyone know, I have started coding the scaling-in thingy. I am away tomorrow and Thursday, so next week is a realistic date for finishing this.
- #54
- Edited 6:27pm Aug 9, 2011 6:05pm | Edited 6:27pm
No to both. Sorry. The first misses the entire point of this sytem and the second does not interest me enough to code it.
So i just added the line, so that i can already attach them to some/all pairs, and when there's a change in trend (or continuation after small pullback) it would start trading and continue trading as it was meant.
So only for the first time ataching....
Can you clarify what's wrong with this trigger?
- #56
- Aug 10, 2011 8:43am Aug 10, 2011 8:43am
- | Joined Dec 2005 | Status: It's only money | 1,413 Posts
TRADE FOR SWAP
Ok Guys, after getting 150% in only 5 days, Trendy managed to wipe out all of its profit and more, leaving the account in -20% (That's what demo is for )
I've found the problem to be the EXIT.
As per the system's rules, the position only gets closed when the "score" goes down below 2 (in other words, gets to 1.5). By following this I got open positions with a score of "2" that are currently -600, -600, -430, -410, -150 and -110 pips in the hole, and the system still recognizes them as valid trades.
In order to outcome this (and would like to throw this in for discussion) I would suggest altering the rules a little and have the "points" required for trade opening/closing as a user defined input so we can experiment with say, for example:
-Positions open when the pair scores 3
-The position closes when the pair gets to 2 points
This by itself would give us far more entries/exits as the system in its current form, but it would be more flexible and prone to react to a sudden trend change like the one we're experimenting on several pairs. Also, by playing with this inputs AND testing in differents TF's for the trend lines, we might be able to find a setting that succeeds in catching those moves and bails out in time when heading in the wrong direction.
I'd like to hear some thoughts on this, please be kind
)I've found the problem to be the EXIT.
As per the system's rules, the position only gets closed when the "score" goes down below 2 (in other words, gets to 1.5). By following this I got open positions with a score of "2" that are currently -600, -600, -430, -410, -150 and -110 pips in the hole, and the system still recognizes them as valid trades.
In order to outcome this (and would like to throw this in for discussion) I would suggest altering the rules a little and have the "points" required for trade opening/closing as a user defined input so we can experiment with say, for example:
-Positions open when the pair scores 3
-The position closes when the pair gets to 2 points
This by itself would give us far more entries/exits as the system in its current form, but it would be more flexible and prone to react to a sudden trend change like the one we're experimenting on several pairs. Also, by playing with this inputs AND testing in differents TF's for the trend lines, we might be able to find a setting that succeeds in catching those moves and bails out in time when heading in the wrong direction.
I'd like to hear some thoughts on this, please be kind
Ok Guys, after getting 150% in only 5 days, Trendy managed to wipe out all of its profit and more, leaving the account in -20% (That's what demo is for
I've found the problem to be the EXIT.
As per the system's rules, the position only gets closed when the "score" goes down below 2 (in other words, gets to 1.5). By following this I got open positions with a score of "2" that are currently -600, -600, -430, -410, -150 and -110 pips in the hole, and the system still recognizes them as valid trades.
In order to outcome this (and would...
first days were impressive though
btw, i noticed that a pair would show a +count of 2.5 on dashboard, while the EA shows 1.5 (for + and minus)?